So far I’ve managed to write about what I was not supposed to write about + a bit on the weather. Perhaps because the subjects of Copenhagen and unemployment make me feel somewhat … I don’t know. Homeless, perhaps? Frustrated? Alienated?

I’m definitely an alien now. As is Copenhagen.

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It seems as if the small street where I live has grown noisier while I was gone. Maybe it’s just that I’m still attuned to the silence of the summer cottage, but it sounds as if heaps of metal and rubbish are pushed by a strong wind up and down, up and down the street all night. The gate to the yard is right underneath my bedroom, and it quivers and roars as if drunken people hammer and kick at the old wood all night. It’s an old gate and it’s a noisy one, nothing new there. It’s just never been this bad before. Is this the summer-party-high season? I’m too old to know. I’m also too old to stay awake all night, listening to bellows from the yard and the jangles of rubbish from the street. I need sleep. I need quiet.

I need to not be thinking about bloody gates.

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Here be Monsters

No, I’m not here. Not at all. This past month has been surreal to say the least and has proved to me that there are things going on that I cannot possibly understand nor even imagine. Monsters and The Digging Dead, otherworlds and portals and void-seas and a rabid tangerine in a White House. I’m not here. I’m not here at all. I’m somewhere else, and I’ve no idea where that is. Until I have a slightly firmer grip on my new reality, I’ll keep the updates waiting a little longer. I need some time to mourn the loss of a world I thought I knew and a future I’ve been taking for granted.

Stay safe out there, people. If nothing else, here be monsters.

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Google II

I Googled ’Gatekeepers’ Union’, but they don’t seem to have a website. The only thing I found was a mention of gatekeepers on allefagforeninger.dk, which lists all Danish unions. The suggestions they had for gatekeepers did not include the Gatekeepers’ Union, though, only the usual ones like 3F, Krifa, MA, etc.

As a gatekeeper, you will usually be working as a guard or in the areas of security and surveillance. Similar jobs include store detective, doorkeeper and night porter.

These are all jobs I’ve never had. Unless of course they mean ‘gatekeeper’ as a metaphor. A figure of speech.

Concepts really should organize.

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A Call

“Hi, yes, my name is Anne Nielsen. I’m calling because I’ve just got back after having been out of town for about a week, and I can see that I’ve got a letter from you. Or I’ve got a letter. Which might be from you. Well, it’s from a union, anyway. Can you perhaps check if you’ve sent me any letters recently? No, I’m not a member, that’s what the letter’s about – that I need to re-register with the Union, quick? … Yeah, well, that’s the thing – it says Gatekeeper’s Union, but you’re the only union I’ve ever been a member of, so I thought that perhaps it was a sub-division or … No? Okay, alright. Do you know about any Gatekeepers’ Unions? Alright, okay, thanks anyway.”

“By the way, is it stormy where you are just now …?”

The Gatekeepers’ Union

I’ve received a letter from the Union. Not the Union I used to be a member of – I know, because I phoned them – but the Gatekeepers’ Union. It says:

Dear Gatekeeper 75803002,

You have recently been contacted by Copenhagen Gate Services concerning the reopening of the Gate of Amager. Before returning to your duties, we strongly recommend that you renew your membership of the Gatekeepers’ Union. In these times of crisis, the Inter-D roads in general & the inroads & outroads of Copenhagen & its harbours in particular are under much pressure. This means that the tasks of Gatekeepers continue to expand & we do our utmost to make sure that you can perform your duties with little to no risks to health, life and sanity.

Enclosed is a membership-application form and a return envelope. Please fill out & send us your membership-application as soon as possible.